musée

French

Etymology

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ze/

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Noun

musée m (plural musées)

1. museum

   Tous les dimanches, nous allons au musée.

   We go to the museum every Sunday.

   Nous irons au musée dimanche la semaine prochaine.

   We will go to the museum on Sunday next week.

Derived terms

• muséal

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: mize
• → Chadian Arabic: موزي (mūzē)
• → Persian: موزِه (muze)
• → Turkish: müze

Further reading

• “musée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• émeus, émues, eûmes

Norman

Etymology

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon, “shrine of the Muses”), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”)).

Noun

musée m (plural musées)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) museum